A library project by Sou Fujimoto Architects for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan: a new library building and refurbishment of the existing building into an art gallery, completed in 2010. The warm wooden interior provides enticing places to linger and read.
The 320.000 sqft project by Danish architects CEBRA is located in an old mineral water bottling plant. The building includes a large new exhibition hall, a rooftop exhibition space, a botanical roof garden, a flexible stage, centres for learning, innovation and research, a conference centre, cafeterias and modern staff facilities.
This architecture competition aims to improve the Porto Corallo promenade, stretching from the mouth of the river Flumendosa to the beach of Porto Su Tramatzu, Sardinia. The 1st prize is 10,000 Euros.
An audacious design by architects Beckmann-N’Thépé for the Marne-la-Vallée university library: it evokes a mound of earth ‘torn from its natural environment,’ in harmony with its surroundings. ‘Between naturalism and terror’ – Aldric Beckmann.
A delightful building by architects Li Xiadong/Atelier for a small village on the outskirts of Beijing: “we found large amounts of locally sourced wooden sticks piled around each house…(for) cooking stoves. Thus we decided to use this ordinary material in an extraordinary way, cladding the building in familiar textures in a way that is strikingly sensitive.”
Design: C.Y. Lee & Partners, architects. CTBUH 2016 Performance Award: In 2004 Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world at 449m high with antenna at 509m, thus beating Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers.
Sliced Porosity Block, Chengdu building complex design by Steven Holl for CapitaLand, China, three million sqft project: Steven Holl Building China takes its shape from its distribution of natural light.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announce that YTAA is one of 12 Collateral Events at International Architecture Exhibition titled Freespace, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and organized by La Biennale di Venezia.
A showroom and offices – a dynamic building designed ‘as a museum’ to showcase tiles as beloved possessions, with an unusual fractalised facade design that provides a confusing sense of scale.
Stepping down a steep hillside and overlooking the ocean, Mint Santa Theresa, designed by Studio Saxe, is a new hotel that blends a European design aesthetic with Costa Rican craftsmanship.
A luxurious open plan family home focused on entertaining, with a two-storey waterslide! The hedonistic Miami property by South African architects SAOTA is in the Collin’s Waterfront district
Snøhetta designed the new Planetarium and Visitor Center for Solobservatoriet in Harestua, situated near the original solar observatory, a twelve-meter research tower built by the University of Oslo for the total solar eclipse of 1954.
Restoration of iconic Hornsey Town Hall building in Crouch End to start. The Grade II* Listed former civic headquarters scheme has 146 new homes, including 11 affordable, a new arts centre, hotel, café and flexible community and events space.
